Proven Results
Our organization was struggling to enter the digital marketplace. Sue McKinney built a sustainable learning culture, essential to agile transformation at scale. She leads without managing and creates environments where people have ownership, can innovate, and take risks to succeed.
Sue is an unusual talent - someone that can come into an organization and drive both cultural and organizational change. Changing an established company with long-ingrained behaviors is one of the most difficult challenges in technology. Our industry needs more people like Sue.
Sue led the transformation of IBM Software Group development to leverage Agile, Lean and Collaborative approaches across all SWG product lines and 25,000 software engineers. Her leadership was outstanding and her innovative approaches delivered huge measurable improvements in practice credibility, adoption and, most importantly, results. Sue built a powerful, self-sustaining community of practice leaders across all divisions. Executives and teams, who were provided with motivation, guidance, training and support by Sue and her core team showed significant improvements in market responsiveness, customer focussed value delivery, speed to market, flexibility, productivity, delivered quality and business results.
- Christopher Harrison, Agile Transformation, Pitney Bowes
Sue is an unusual talent - someone that can come into an organization and drive both cultural and organizational change. Changing an established company with long-ingrained behaviors is one of the most difficult challenges in technology. Our industry needs more people like Sue.
- Marty Cagan, Founding Partner, Silicon Valley Product Group
Sue led the transformation of IBM Software Group development to leverage Agile, Lean and Collaborative approaches across all SWG product lines and 25,000 software engineers. Her leadership was outstanding and her innovative approaches delivered huge measurable improvements in practice credibility, adoption and, most importantly, results. Sue built a powerful, self-sustaining community of practice leaders across all divisions. Executives and teams, who were provided with motivation, guidance, training and support by Sue and her core team showed significant improvements in market responsiveness, customer focussed value delivery, speed to market, flexibility, productivity, delivered quality and business results.
- Paul Gibson, Development Operations Manager IBM Hursley (retired)
Case Studies
Business Transformation
A large technology company was faced with increasing competition, internal complexity, and price and cost pressures. This company needed to increase innovation while streamlining operations. We trained their leadership, product, and project leaders in our tools. This company has seen dramatic results. One team, after a single day of training, reduced their software product planning cycle from three months to three days. The team improved their product functionality while reducing their time-to-market and development costs and risks.
Improve Time to Market
One transitioning company struggled with hitting committed delivery dates, achieving only a 65% rate within a 30 day window. We consolidated tools, created agile dashboards and improved project visibility to the organization and teams. Disciple and rigor in the areas of continuous integration, organizational re-structure, and sprint reflections for improvements. For 60 projects, in 18 months, the company went to a 93% on time, on budget completion rate.
Continuous Delivery
One major SaaS product was three years late - constant pivots without delivery. After our assessment, we suggested the development of an agile architecture and delivered multi-tenant web mapping solution in 9 months with the ability for continuous delivery.